The Washington critic., 1887-03-03
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

William 7. Gilbert, u well.known citizen
OF Winchester, Va, is dead.
Chef-Justice Morrison OF the California
supreme Court died yesterday.
The strike OF the employees Of the Pho'o-
Engraving Company Of New York has
ended,
Assistant Bishop Randolph is visiting the
Episcopal Churches on the Eastern Shore OF
Virginia.
Governor Lee OF Virginia denies report
that he had prepared plan for the settle
ment OF the State debt.
Rev. DR.. Talmage is expected TO deliver
the annual address before the Virginia Bible
Society In Richmond, April s.
II is reported that the Wilson steamship
Line has become the owners Of the embar-
rassed Monarch Line steamers.
II. d. Plant OF New York has been re-
elected president OF the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railroad Company.
Governor Hill OF New York has nomi-
mated James Arkell OF the Albany JO,undi
for the Office Of state Railroad Commis.
sioner.
Rufus Blodgett, superintendent of the
New York and Long Branch Railroad, has
been elected United States Senator from New
Jersey.
The Ames Sword Company OF Chicopec,
Mass, have discontinued the manufacture
OF sword blades, and will hereafter import
them from Germany.
At meeting of the Jersey Central dlrec-
tors yesterday, j. II. MAXWELL vlce-president
OF the Long Island Railroad, was elected di-
rector in place Of X. $. Hayes.
Governor Wilson has vetoed bill passed
by the West Virginia Legislature comforting
additional powers on the Potomac and Pied
mont Coal and Railroad Company.
William Paisley has been arrested at
Hopeville, Luzerne County, Pa, charged
with the murder OF Mrs. Peter Krainock, a t
Hopeyile, on the night of February IA.
John Walters, n survivor of the Irish re.
belllon Of li!ls and said to lie the oldest resi-.
dent Of Detroit, died Tuesday. He would
have been los years old the 18th OF this
month.
A petition from the merchants and busl.
Dess men of Providence, Il. l., representing
about S4O,OO0,OOO, WIS presented to the
Rhode Island General Assembly yesterday,
asking for the repeal Of the prohibtory
laws.
Representative railroad men met In New
York yesterday to consider the adjustment
Of tariffs aud schedules to tho requirements
Of the Interstate Commerce law. The com.
mittee on freight classiticatiOns made re-
port which was accepted.
George II. Baker, once an ultimate friend
OF William IL. Seward, aud an associate of
Horace Greeley and Thurlow Weed, died in
New York yesterday. Mr.. Baker was for
merly dishursiDg clerk OF the State Depart
ment. He will be buried in Washington
Saturday.
At Lancaster, Pa yesterday, Alderman
Barr dismissed the complaints for murder
sgainst Eby Rudy, Martin II. Hess aud
Reuben Herman, charged with killing Geo.
w. Dennis, the Commonwealth having
failed to show that murder had been
| committed. Samuel Ellsworth, arrested as
an accessory, was also discharged.
Colonel Glider, who set out last fall to
| discover the North Pole, has arrived at Sell
| kirk, Man., on his return. lie reached Fort
Churchill too late to catch the Hudson Bay
boat, and resolved to return to New York
He left his companion Griffith, at Fort
Churchill, but says he will rejoin him and
make another attempt in few months.